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[deregular]

Ok so due to limitations with what I am doing, I need to run a wget on a url.

But for some reason when I enter the cron line, every time it runs it creates a sequential file above my http_doc...

Here is my cron

wget http://www.domain.com/newsletter/cron_newsletter/ -q -O /dev/null

It is creating these types of files...
index.html
index.html.1
index.html.2
index.html.3
index.html.4

Ive tried to use the quiet and output switches but it is still doing it.

Hosting is hostgator btw.

Anyone have any ideas how I can stop it from creating these sequential files?

[perkiset]

When you pull a URL down twice, the default behavior is to name the second one .1 and the third .2 etc ... I'll bet if you erased the original every time you'd not see the dotted # suffixes anymore.

[deregular]

Yeah i could do that, but that would be a work around.

I dont want it to even produce the first index.html, as it is not supposed to be there.